Executive Summary Background on the history of supply chain planning. A fascinating supply chain process diagram from 1946. The area of coverage of the diagram. A short bio of the diagram’s author. What the diagram tells us about system evolution in this area. The Background on The History of Supply Chain Planning In a previous…
Executive Summary Subcontracting with a contract manufacturer is a specialized workflow within subcontracting. We cover the relationship between OEM and contract manufacturer. Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) Contract manufacturing has grown tremendously in many areas, from electronics to food and pharmaceuticals. Subcontracting allows companies with no interest in participating in manufacturing or companies…
Executive Summary There are four major supply planning threads which are distinct from planning runs. We also cover how a rough schedule or rough plan differs from a detailed schedule and S&OP, as well as the deployment plan, redeployment plan, and the timing of various supply planning threads as well as the differences between the…
Setting Up the Supply Network in SAP APO What The Book Covers Never before has a supply planning book concentrated solely on setting up the Supply Network Planning (SNP) model in SAP APO, the most fully-featured supply chain planning suite on the market. This book is the only book on supply planning to focus entirely…
Executive Summary Multisourcing is the use of sourcing from multiple providers and uses logic to make a selection. We cover how multi-sourcing works. Introduction Within supply planning systems, in most instances, single locations are assigned to fulfill the demand of internal locations. Multisourcing is the opposite of this and can mean the fulfillment of requests…
Superplant: Creating a Nimble Manufacturing Enterprise with Adaptive Planning Software Screenshots and examples from PlanetTogether and SAP APO. What The Book Covers In an environment of increasingly globalized manufacturing, a very long production line that spans the globe is more common than ever. For an increasing number of corporations, multi-plant planning is a reality. “Superplant”…
Constrained Supply and Production Planning in SAP APO Screenshots and examples from SAP APO. What This Book Cover Constraint-based production planning generates something that is appealing to all manufacturers: an available supply and production plan. However, constraint-based planning software was first implemented over twenty years ago, and yet few companies have mastered constraint-based production planning….
Planning Horizons, Planning Calendars, and Timings in SAP APO Screenshots and examples from SAP APO. What The Book Covers APO is the most fully-featured supply chain planning suite on the market, and its sheer number of lead time and timing settings makes it one of the most complex as well! Keeping these settings straight and associating the lead times…
Multi-Method Supply Planning in SAP APO Screenshots and examples from SAP APO. What The Book Covers Which supply planning method meets your company’s business requirements? The answer might surprise you! There is no one right supply planning method for all situations, even within one company! It is unnecessary to choose only one method, and using…
Executive Summary In SNP, there is an issue with mapping stock transport orders desired to be made in ECC but not planned in APO. The approach explained in this article is often recommended by SAP consultants but works against APO’s normal functioning. This is an issue that dovetails with stock redeployment. Preparatory Reading Please see…